Dan Charnas on his new book 'Dilla Time'

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Hip-hop historian Dan Charnas joins Bullseye to discuss his new book Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm. Charnas digs deep into the life and work of acclaimed producer J Dilla, who took the hip-hop industry by storm at a young age with his signature, influential production style. His solo album Donuts was released to rave reviews just three days before his death. Dan Charnas discusses his new book, Dilla's impact that still influences musicians to this day and the immeasurable legacy he left behind.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:14.1	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:16.1	Before we get into my next guest this week, I want to play a song, Stakes is High by
0:20.4	Dale Ossoy.
0:45.3	It's a classic, the lead single from the album the same day.
0:48.8	A take down of the state of hip hop in the mid 1990s.
0:52.2	And the producer on that track was a new guy named J.D., not Germain Dupri, the guy who
0:59.5	invented crisscross.
1:01.3	J. Dilla.
1:03.0	Dilla is and I am not exaggerating here one of the most consequential producers in the
1:07.3	history of popular music.
1:09.6	His career was brief, tragically.
1:12.3	He started working in the mid 1990s and continued until he died in 2006.
1:17.6	He worked with artists like The Farside, Busta Rhymes, DeAngelo, a tribe called Quest.
1:23.1	His solo album Donuts, released just three days before he died, was in instant classic.
1:30.9	Dilla's music was iconic, genre redefined.
1:56.7	He inspired dozens of other artists, countless imitators, and now he's inspired a book.
2:03.2	Earlier this year my guest Dan Charnis wrote Dilla time, the life and afterlife of J.Dilla,
2:09.2	the hip hop producer who reinvented rhythm.
2:13.0	Charnis has made a career out of covering the history of hip hop.
2:16.1	In Dilla time, he writes about J.Dilla's life, but he also writes about how Dilla revolutionized
2:22.2	a genre.
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